Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:40:47 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030122154047.GJ25795@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <KFEBJMODJFGGBFKKFALKOEBHCAAA.jcbotha@cedar.org.za> References: <KFEBJMODJFGGBFKKFALKOEBHCAAA.jcbotha@cedar.org.za>
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--BEa57a89OpeoUzGD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:47:10AM +0200, JCBotha wrote: > Dear Sir >=20 > I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to > look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able = to > master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX= OS > systems. With windows I at least can help myself and find my way around. >=20 > I need to set up a server that host an Internet (POP3) connection for thr= ee > different networks that must not be able to communicate with one other. T= op > security is needed. The reason is this is a Teachers training collage, the > one network is for the admin department and another for the staff and las= tly > the student network. Just by the way, will this modem connection be able = to > handle about 30 computers on the network. I know that an ISDN connection > will be better but presently we do not have anything ells. The server tha= t I > would like to set up should be able to record all student activities in t= he > sense to monitor the web pages visited and the printing that has been do= ne > plus to forbid certain printings such as web pages. >=20 > What do you suggest me to do, start from scratch and study a UNIX system = or > face the Windows server package. >=20 > Yours truly >=20 > JC Botha There is a tremendous amount of online documentation for FreeBSD (and many other UNIX derivative systems). The first place to start is usually the FreeBSD Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html (it's in other langs than English if you need them). Also, the documentation that comes with each FreeBSD in the form of what are called "man" pages (manual pages) is very extensive and quite easy to use. For more places on which to get help check out: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html. Of course, there are always support forums like this one (freebsd-question), as well as a couple of news groups. There may very well be a FreeBSD users group near you as well. Per your own words, I suggest you start from scratch and study a UNIX system. You will not regret the decision down the road. You may find the learning curve somewhat steep if you have no familiarity with working at a command line. However, once you hammer out some of the basics and begin to become proficient you will probably start to find MS Windows intolerably imposing and restrictive. Good luck, Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --BEa57a89OpeoUzGD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Lrt+WZYS9EJQoEwRAmtbAKD0zYEu0ubMMTNIomcfrg5VXr4YtQCghLiu Ih8FvYrQzLPOY8LsU36+ZMo= =g5Y6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BEa57a89OpeoUzGD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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